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Sword Art Online: The Beginning Project is IBM's collaboration project which shows off their virtual reality capabilities with the help of Reki Kawahara's Sword Art Online light novel series. Daisuki. net was present during the "Alpha Tests" for t...

Matcha Kit Kat lovers can now enjoy more green tea chocolate options. Following on from their popular "I LOVE FRUITS" series released last year, Nestlé Japan has announced their next premium collection, called "I LOVE TEA", featuring five new tea-...

Respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei published a rumor this morning that the Wii U will soon be ceasing production to make way for the upcoming NX. Nintendo is now denying that report. Nikkei reports Wii U production will apparently end before the ...

An early look at 4/8 issue of Young Animal magazine, out in Japan March 25th, has revealed the staff and cast for the new anime adaptation of Kentaro Miura's fantasy horror Berserk, slated to run on the MBS late-night Animeism block and satelite b...

While we got word over the weekend that Viz Media will be doing some streaming for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable as well as prior seasons, they're not the only ones. Crunchyroll hsa revealed that they'll be streaming the ...

The prestigious Anime of the Year Award, which is divided into Movie and TV Animation categories, have finally been given out during last Monday (21 March)'s Tokyo Anime Award Festival. The two winners of the awards are Love Live!

By Sato . March 22, 2016 . 5:45am Sega revealed the latest details on their upcoming PlayStation 4 rhythm game, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone, with details on two versions that the game is getting when it releases later this year.

Square Enix announced it will launch Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness for PlayStation 4 this summer in North America and Europe during its first "Star Log" live stream. The western release will feature both English and Japanese audio.

Japanese animation studio, J. C. Staff (A Certain series, Shakugan no Shana) has announced that they will be animating Shinjirou's action manga, Taboo Tattoo, which will be premiering in July 2016. The announcement was made in the manga's 11th vol...

Classic romance drama Fushigi Yugi has revealed the cast for its upcoming live action musical, the costumes naturally sporting a great resemblance to the source material that unfortunately speaks nothing of the potential quality of the musical its...

This is an RSS version of the original article. Please visit www. otakustudy. com for the full post. While its English localised release was years in the making, SEGA finally pooled the resources into localising and publishing Yakuza 5 on the Play...

The Tokyo Anime Award Festival has been celebrating the anime industry since 2002. All anime that aired between November 1, 2014 to October 31, 2015. Here are this year's winners: Theatrical Anime of the Year - Love Live!

By Joel Couture . March 22, 2016 . 3:00pm A new NightCry video has released, revealing the Clock Tower-successor's English release date as March 29, 2016. The video shows some strange characters in masks, as well as an unfortunate end for a woman ...

Ahead of this weekend's AnimeJapan tradeshow, a spotted banner has revealed that the 20th anniversary Tales of TV anime, Tales of Zestiria the X ("the X" is pronounced as "the Cross"), previously lined up for 2016, is now slated for summer.

Beautifully drawn anime ad shows the emotional friendships that can come from a part-time job. Being a medium in which creators have complete control over the visuals, just about anything can look awesomely stylish or emotionally profound in anime.

Following the successful first set released in June 2015, Bandai's apparel division releases the second set of deodorant waters inspired by the seven popular characters from the Kuroko's Basketball anime series.

The characters from the dead-serious magical girl franchise show off their bunny ears, flowery dresses, and egg-shaped soul gems. Over the last few years, Japan's excitement about Halloween has spiked, which has been a boon for marketers as they r...

Capcom have celebrated the 20th anniversary of their highly acclaimed Resident Evil franchise by having an interview with producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, causing more dedicated fans to hope that a clear answer will be given as to why the franchise ha...

Warner Bros. began streaming streaming a 120-second promotional video for the upcoming anime adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Part IV: Diamond Is Unbreakable manga on Tuesday. The series is scheduled to air from April 1.

It was recently announced that Occultic;Nine, a light novel series by Chiyomaru Shikura, will get an anime adaptation slated for 2016. At the moment, Chiyomaru Shikura is most popularly known as the head of MAGES.

One of Japan's greatest contributions to literature is the haiku, a type of poem which has 17 syllables in a five-seven-five pattern. A contest was recently held in Japan for haikus (not to be confused with the volleyball manga, Haikyuu!

While Aniplex USA announced their plans for the second cour of The Asterisk War this weekend that included Crunchyroll, we definitely like to pull out a separate post when Crunchyroll themselves announce how they'll be handling the series.

Bandai Namco and Granzella shared the latest on their collaboration survival-action adventure game, City Shrouded in Shadow, with a peek at what appears to be an EVA Unit silhouette from Evangelion in this week's issue of Famitsu magazine.

May'n and Megumi Nakajima have made a name for themselves with Macross Frontier, and the upcoming Macross Delta TV anime is aiming to replicate their success with this new batch of theme song singers, who are most certainly following in the footst...

Bandai Namco Games' One Piece: Burning Blood is bringing 3-on-3 brawling action to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PS Vita in North America on May 31, with a PC version and European launch to follow in June.

Crunchyroll has announced another spring 2016 anime series pickup this week with today's announcement of Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-. The streaming service will bring out the show on April 3rd at 2:35pm for its first episode while fut...

Koei Tecmo revealed their ninth and final character introduction trailer with one for Kasumi, the runaway shinobi and former member of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan, who debuted in the very first Dead or Alive game.

Another trailer has run amok for the upcoming Hentai Kamen: The Abnormal Crisis movie, promising watchers more hilarious perversions than ever before, that will no doubt have some reconsidering their opinion on exhibitionists (others not so much).